piecat
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- Comment on AI Training Slop 2 days ago:
How much electricity was wasted for you to post, and us to receive, your human slop
- Comment on The plan for nationwide fiber internet might be upended for Starlink 3 days ago:
Microwave point-to-point radios are fastest because they travel through air, but more importantly, are typically the shortest path possible by line-of-sight.
Being 66.7% of speed of light doesn’t matter terribly when you consider that the cable path is shorter by more than 66.7% of path taken by satelite link.
There’s also the idea of
- Comment on Can I replace honey with maple syrup? 4 days ago:
Wait really? Butterworth is more like honey than maple syrup?
I guess butterworth is just flavored HFCS.
- Comment on Windows 11 Start Menu Revealed as Resource-Heavy React Native App, Sparks Performance Concerns 4 days ago:
Even a 20 year old computer. Honestly.
The start menu should barely make a dent.
- Comment on Let's play this game again 1 week ago:
You didn’t say how much: you’re gifted at one thing, but you’re now nonverbal and every sensation is overwhelming.
- Comment on Realtek's $10 tiny 10GbE network adapter is coming to motherboards later this year 1 week ago:
Rtlsdr too
- Comment on Does anyone have any advice on how to make homemade conductive paint to fix a. cracked carbon trace in a game controller? 5 weeks ago:
You’ll have a bad time with used copper tape. Just like why it isn’t advised to reuse any other kind of tape (duct, packaging, electrical)
- Comment on Does anyone have any advice on how to make homemade conductive paint to fix a. cracked carbon trace in a game controller? 5 weeks ago:
Most copper tape i’ve seen has conductive adhesive
- Comment on British soldiers tune radio waves to fry drone swarms for pennies 1 month ago:
Radio waves are a specific wavelength/band of the EM spectrum. Light is not radio waves, just as radiowaves aren’t light.
They’re both electromagnetic waves.
- Comment on British soldiers tune radio waves to fry drone swarms for pennies 1 month ago:
Step 1: take the magnetron out of a microwave oven
Step 2: …
- Comment on France to ban students from keeping smartphones in schools 1 month ago:
Two things can be true
- Comment on The Signal and the noise: Why the messaging app is great for privacy but not for war plans. 1 month ago:
Yeah- that is a bit odd. Who and if not intentional, how?
- Comment on Most Americans think AI won’t improve their lives, survey says 1 month ago:
Holy shit, that AI chat is too good.
- Comment on Coin-sized nuclear 3V battery with 50-year lifespan enters mass production 1 month ago:
Yep.
- Comment on Coin-sized nuclear 3V battery with 50-year lifespan enters mass production 1 month ago:
2mA minimum, and that’s just q current. It’s gonna be much higher when you’re actually using it for a clock.
I’m sure the casio’s main power sink is the display. I bet the refresh rate could be reduced for better battery life.
- Comment on If we silenced all the sources of misinformation/disinformation people would be agast at how quiet it is. 1 month ago:
Science has an unintuitive philosophical system, it is actually impossible (or just not feasible) to “disprove” a lot of things absolutely 100%.
Best you can do is prove something, or fail to prove something.
And it does make some sense, there’s uncertainty in measurements, there’s some probability and statistics involved.
Proving there are NOT aliens out there would require checking every inch of every planet for life, remains, or fossils.
- Comment on Virgin Physicists 2 months ago:
With an ohm meter?
- Comment on Virgin Physicists 2 months ago:
You can’t tell me that there isn’t a good reason that 0.001% resistors exist. Otherwise why sell them?
- Comment on Two Open Source Projects Combine to 3D Print a Working Replica Key Using a Flipper Zero 2 months ago:
Lead and cadmium? Jeez
- Comment on Something Bizarre Is Happening to People Who Use ChatGPT a Lot 2 months ago:
People also don’t realize how incredibly stupid humans can be. I don’t mean that in a judgemental or moral kind of way, I mean that the educational system has failed a lot of people.
There’s some % of people that could use AI for every decision in their lives and the outcome would be the same or better.
That’s even more terrifying IMO.
- Comment on Half Life: Alyx is Five Years Old Today 2 months ago:
That is why those other VR sets are so cheap.
With valve, you’re paying for the hardware. With Meta, you’re the product
- Comment on Brian Eno: “The biggest problem about AI is not intrinsic to AI. It’s to do with the fact that it’s owned by the same few people” 2 months ago:
This is where “universal basic income” comes into play
- Comment on Bernard 2 months ago:
Kinda looks like larry david
- Comment on Cloudflare turns AI against itself with endless maze of irrelevant facts 2 months ago:
It’s definitely an arms race. One other outcome is that it gets too expensive to be cost effective and slows down that way.
- Comment on YSK: That nazis Don't Actually Believe in Free Speech 2 months ago:
Counterpoint:
You can say anything in an authoritarian state, the consequences are that you’ll get disappeared in the night.
- Comment on Why most countries are struggling to shut down 2G. 2 months ago:
There’s a lot of hidden cost associated with supporting legacy features/standards/technology
Do they have different frequencies? Require different antennas?
Are there cost implications for radios / amplifiers? Do ASICs support only newer modes? How much obsoleted / legacy HW is required?
And that’s just from a manufacturer standpoint.
Are more licenses required? Or other regulatory impacts?
- Comment on Gaming chat platform Discord in early talks with banks about public listing 2 months ago:
What a blast from the past
- Comment on Come one come all, it's time to unblock !conservative@lemmy.world and bring your best memes of conservatives! 2 months ago:
when in reality it results in murderous regimes that oppress their people, their neighbors and everyone else there is to oppress.
Huh TIL that the USA is communist.
- Comment on Come one come all, it's time to unblock !conservative@lemmy.world and bring your best memes of conservatives! 2 months ago:
Communists aren’t destroying the US government as of now. Unless you consider the Russian assets on the right as communists?
- Comment on YSK: Gas stoves cause cancer 2 months ago:
Only if you have the proper high btu burner